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ColinWright

136,194karma·18,658submissions·December 14, 2009
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If you want to contact me, find me on the web. I am especially interested in math, juggling, programming, and education, and since there are other people with my name you'll probably need to include at least one of those terms in any search.

I was once a prolific contributor and commenter, but no more. I go through bouts of submitting stuff, but then go and disappear for lengths of time. If there is something you'd like me to see or comment on, you can email me. Don't ask me to upvote things. If it is interesting (to me) then I will.

Submissions do not imply endorsement.

My spam filtering is pretty severe, but I've put the word "Dysprosium" on the allow-list - quote that and your email will get through.

I used to have an email here but it got harvested by spammers - I'm looking at you, mbientlab.com - so it has been removed. This is a temporary one:

HN_a7dab8S4@solipsys.co.uk

Email sent there and quoting the element name will pass my spam filters. After that we can use "proper" email addresses.

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As always, never, ever trust an organisation with anything you care about. Always, always have backups. Always.
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Prioritising the request people make that they can easily move to a new device, over the security that it offers?
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Links: Apple recovery contact: - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102641 - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102608 - https://support.apple…
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That was posted elsewhere, but links to that site don't work on HN, hence the wall of text. Some of the comments posted in response on the other site may be copied here.
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Quoting from the post: > "It's our best theory of elementary particles and forces. It's absolutely amazing: it took centuries of genius to discover that the world is like this, and…
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Quoting from the post on Mastodon where I saw this: "Chromium is like a computer virus. It spreads everywhere, infects every piece of software, makes your computer slow, and sets huge barriers t…
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There's also this: https://www.keanu.codes/
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